The Library of historic characters and famous events of all nations . THE New England Colonies sufferedlittle from the hostilities of the Indiansfor half a century after the settlementof Plymouth, in 1620. The treaty ]\Ias-sassoit made with the first settlers, theamicable and humane policy of thecolonial government, and the zealousefforts of the ministers to Christianizethe Indians, were the principal causesof this peaceful progress. But when the whites greatlyoutnumbered the Indians in New England, the knowledgeof their own strength led them to fancy themselves secure,and encouraged the ruder
The Library of historic characters and famous events of all nations . THE New England Colonies sufferedlittle from the hostilities of the Indiansfor half a century after the settlementof Plymouth, in 1620. The treaty ]\Ias-sassoit made with the first settlers, theamicable and humane policy of thecolonial government, and the zealousefforts of the ministers to Christianizethe Indians, were the principal causesof this peaceful progress. But when the whites greatlyoutnumbered the Indians in New England, the knowledgeof their own strength led them to fancy themselves secure,and encouraged the ruder sort to tyrannize over the red Philip of Pokanoket was the first of the Indianchiefs who undertook to organize the red men against thewhites, and, though he failed eventually in his purpose, hisgenius is not the less remarkable. He was the youngest son of Massassoit, and was originallynamed Pometacom. He succeed his brother, Wamsotta, asSachem of Pokanoket, in 1657. They had been christenedby the English, at the request of their father, and thenreceived t
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